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There. I said it. Medium Trust is PITA. I wont be surprised if someone replies with  one of the following: “Well, not really, you only have to do x, y and z and your code is compatible with medium trust environments” or “It’s there (Medium Trust) because code needs boundaries within controlled scenarios such as hosting More >

I have another DimeCast up on DimeCasts.net. More Info: In this episode we are going to continue looking at how to use Partials within the Spark View Engine. In this episode we will take a deeper look at partials and learn more about their _undocumented_ features. We will also be learning how partials will allow More >

Since Microsoft joined the MVC foray with ASP.NET MVC (other options existed previously, such as Monorail) I've personally witnessed (and been part of ) a lot of MVC vs. WebForms discussions. Usually these discussions end up with opposite sides taking their ball and going home in a pissed-off offended rage. Usually the WebForm fans snicker and say ...

A new DimeCast is up Working with Partials in Spark: Part 1. In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use Partials within the Spark View Engine. We will be taking a first look at partials and learn how we can setup our application to use partials as well as how to use them in your application. We will also be learning how partials ...

I have a new DimeCast up, Learning how to use Named Content Areas with Spark. I cover some basics on the usage of the named content areas as well as how to utilize the named content areas to help organize your content. Enjoy!

This Saturday, Twin Cities Code Camp 7! I'll be presenting on the awesome ASP.NET MVC and Spark View Engine implementation. Come on down, its free! Don't forget to register on the Code Camp website. :) See you there.   * The text below was shamelessly stolen from Chris G Williams Blog. I couldnt say it any better so I figured I'd copy it :) ...

Below is a link to download the Testing With Mocks lightning round talk that I gave at the Heartland Developers Conference this last week. In order to get the samples to run you will need to have TypeMock Isolator installed. If you do not own a license you can download an evaluation for free here. The download includes full buildable source and ...

Below you can download a zip file which contains the presentation as well as the code used in my “ASP.NET MVC w/ Spark View Engine” talk today at the Heartland Developers Conference. You should be able to download, unzip, open the solution and hit F5 and run. You will _not_ need to install ASP.NET MVC for this to work. I’m including the mvc ...

For anyone who attended this years MDC 2009 and came to my presentation “ASP.NET MVC w/ Spark View Engine” knows that we had some _major_ technical difficulties. We could not get the projector to present via my laptop. To make up for this I have decided to create a screen recording of the presentation. The presentation is about 67 ...

During some recent development the team I was experiencing some friction with databases and developing. We were using Castle Active Record and we soon realized that as new people joined the team, left the team (rinse, wash, repeat), db changes occurred in the Active Record Schema etc, that the set up time to going was miserable. The problem at ...